Word: shawne
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...month, many are returning so their international charges can compete against China's best athletes. Mexico and Thailand's weightlifting squads are helmed by Chinese, and Belgium's table-tennis team is also Chinese-run. Both the American and Australian diving teams are strengthened by Chinese coaching expertise. And Shawn Johnson and Bernard Lagat, top American medal prospects in women's gymnastics and men's middle-distance track respectively, depend on the ministrations of their personal Chinese coaches...
...Joaquin Valley farm water supplies to 40% of the contracted amount. Many of the farmers in the region have been allotted only one sixth of the water supply they need to sustain their crops through the crucial summer months. "This is a death sentence," says almond and wine farmer Shawn Coburn...
...baseball team can pinpoint exactly where the 2008 campaign went awry. From March 30 to April 8, the Crimson went 1-7 in Ivy League play and essentially eliminated itself from title contention. “That was the low point of the season,” senior ace Shawn Haviland said. “That put us out of it pretty early.”The slump came right at the start of the Ancient Eight schedule, so by the time Harvard found its stride late in the year, there was no time left for a comeback. The Crimson...
...allegations lodged against the journalists are vague. But the real crime they committed was crossing an ever-shifting line of what the country's media can and cannot report, says Shawn McHale, a professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University who is in Vietnam on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. Vietnam's economy has been growing rapidly for the last several years as the authoritarian government gradually embraces free-market reforms. Institutions like the press would like to see a similar lifting of controls and have increasingly been pushing the limits of government tolerance...
...Tied, 6-6, in the top of the eighth, junior Matt Rogers hit a solo blast to left that put the Crimson up by one. The Huskies never had a chance to respond—Harvard’s two strongest pitchers, seniors Brad Unger and Shawn Haviland, silenced the Northeastern bats in the late innings to secure a 7-6 victory...